The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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04 February 2013

A Comic Book Artist's Absurd Murder Mystery

Artists, Models and Murder Tedd Steele Toronto: News Stand Library, 1948 141 pages This review now appears, revised and rewr...

02 February 2013

Miss Cameron Does Mrs Mackay an injustice

Following Thursday's post on The House of Windows by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay : An adventurer, educator, lecturer and suffrage...

31 January 2013

The Hell That is Retail: 1912 Edition

The House of Windows Isabel Ecclestone Mackay London: Cassell, 1912 Writing on Ontario, opium and cocaine in Isabel Ecclestone Macka...

26 January 2013

Harper Hockey Book Watch: Year Nine, Day 222

A big tip of the hat and nod of respect this fine weekend to journalist Stephen Maher for doggedly pursuing a story which so many o...

25 January 2013

'Robert Burns' by Mr. John Steele of St. John, N.B.

Robert Burns Statue Victoria Park, Halifax Photograph by David Murray Verse by John Steele found in Selections from Scottish...

22 January 2013

No Gun for Gloria

This Gun for Gloria Bernard Mara [pseud. Brian Moore] New York: Gold Medal, 1956 144 pages This review now appears, revised ...

21 January 2013

Shhhh...

A week tomorrow it will be my honour to moderate a panel featuring Chris Woodrow (Acting CEO and Director of Strategic Planning, Windsor...

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About Me

Brian Busby: A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.

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